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一派 (yī pā) — (classifier) a school, faction, or group sharing the same view; (classifier) a scene or atmosphere (of a certain quality)

Definition

Literary 'a (whole) scene of…' / 'a school of…' — describes a unified atmosphere or a group sharing one view. Common in written prose, not daily speech.

classifier
a schoolfactionor group sharing the same viewa scene or atmosphere (of a certain quality)

Examples

  • 一派。
    Xué shù jiè yǒu yī pā xué zhě zhī chí zhè ge lǐ lùn.
    There is a school of scholars in academia that supports this theory.
  • ，一派。
    Qiū tiān dào le, tián yě lǐ yī pā fēng shōu jǐng xiàng.
    Autumn has arrived, and the fields show a scene of abundant harvest.
  • 一派，。
    Tā shuō de quán shì yī pā hú yán, bié xìn tā.
    Everything he said was a pack of nonsense; don't believe him.

Origin

Compound word
构词法gòucífǎ
偏正piānzhèngModifier + head

The first part narrows down the second: it says what kind of thing the head is.

一yīone
派pàifaction

一 means one, and 派 means faction or style, so it names a single group or atmosphere.

Characters in this word

An abstract idea shown by a mark or a diagram rather than by a picture of an object.

一 is drawn as one horizontal stroke, marking the number one.

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Most characters — around four in five — are built this way: one part hints at the meaning, the other at the pronunciation.

Meaning part形符xíngfú
水水shuǐwater; river
Sound part声符shēngfú
𠂢
𠂢𠂢派pài
The sound has drifted apartThe sound part was a clue two thousand years ago — it often still helps, but not always.

派 is built from 水 (water/river) and 𠂢. 𠂢 gives the sound, and 水 was added later to tell the character apart from the older form.

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